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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs
R Aaij1, B Adeva2, M Adinolfi3
140European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract:
A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 and a lifetime between 2 and 500 ps, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 , collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced in the decay of a 125 Standard-Model-like Higgs boson. The experimental signature is a single long-lived particle, identified by a displaced vertex with two associated jets. No excess above background is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the mass and lifetime of the long-lived particle.
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